When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Monday, May 31, 2010

A sun eclipse as seen from our rooftop dwelling in Antwerpen, Belgium.1594 (-) Artist Tintoretto originally Jacopo Comin aka Il Furioso, dies of fever at the age of 75 in Venice, Italy.1809 (-) Composer Franz Josef Haydn dies at the age of 77 in Vienna, Austria.1819 (+) Poet and humanist Walt Walter Whitman aka the Father of Free Verse, is born in West Hills, Town of Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA.1857 (+) 260th Pope Pius XI originally Achille Ratti, is born in Desio, Italy.1878 (-) Murderess Eugenie Marie Chantrelle is executed by hanging at the age of 54 in the United Kingdom.1922 (-) Murderer Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong is executed by hanging at the age of 53 in Gloucester Prison, United Kingdom.1928 (-) Murderer Frederick Guy Browne is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1928 (-) Murderer William Henry Kennedy is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1930 (+) Actor and filmmaker Clint Clinton Eastwood is born in San Francisco, California, USA.1945 (+) Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder is born in Bad-Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany.1945 (x) Nazi-Germany capitulates in WWII.1953 (-) Futurist artist Wladimir Jewgrafowitsch Tatlin dies at the age of 67 in Moscow, Russia.1960 (-) Writer Willem Elsschot originally Alfons-Jozef De Ridder, dies of skin cancer at the age of 78 in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.1962 (-) Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is executed by hanging at the age of 56 in Jerusalem, Ramleh Prison, Israël.1965 (+) Actress Brooke Shields is born in New York, New York, USA.1965 (x) 37-year-old Founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths Clarence 13X originally Clarence Smith aka The Father, is arrested and charged with assault and battery, conspiracy, disorderly conduct, marijuana possession, resisting arrest, and unlawful assembly in New York City, New York, USA.1967 (-) Jan Douse aka Cra Cupido, is beaten and stabbed to death by Hans Van Zon at the age of 80 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.1968 (x) 11-year-old Serial Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, and Norma Bell break into the local nursery, leaving notes referring to the murder of 4-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle, Scotland, United Kingdom.1972 (x) In a taped speech, 37-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof calls up students to take up arms and fight the system in Frankfurt-am-Main, Hörsaal 6 der Universität, Germany.1984 (x) 30-year-old Mass-Murderer Linwood Earl Briley leads the escape of 6 convicted killers from the Mecklenberg Correctional Centre in Boydton, USA.They are all arrested about 3 weeks later.1990 (-) Joseph Proce is killed by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer at the age of 78 in New York, Queens, New York, USA.1991 (-) Writer Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 77 in the United Kingdom.1996 (-) Spiritual theorist Timothy Francis Leary dies of prostate cancer at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, USA.2000 (-) Multiple Murderer Robert Earl Carter is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Chris Burden Descending a Staircase during his installation-performance "Beam Drop" in the Middelheim Museum in Antwerpen, Belgium.1431 (-) Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 19 in Rouen, France.1535 (x) 43-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his third wife Jane Seymour in London, United Kingdom.It was only 11 days after the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn.1640 (-) Artist Peter Paul Rubens dies of gout at the age of 62 in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.1672 (+) Ruler Peter the Great originally Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov, is born in Moscow, Russia.1778 (-) Writer Voltaire originally François-Marie Arouet, dies at the age of 83 in Paris, France.When asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce the devil and turn to God, he replied, "For God's sake, let me die in peace."1814 (+) Anarchist Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin is born in Pryamukhino, Russia.1845 (+) Duke of Aosta and King of Spain Amadeus I is born in Turin, Italy.1881 (-) Cornelia De Hees-Van Der Linden is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in Leiden, the Netherlands.They were sisters in law.1887 (+) Artist Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko is born in Kiev, Russia.1909 (+) Musician Benny Benjamin David Goodman is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1912 (-) Airplane pioneer Wilbur Wright dies of typhoid fever at the age of 45 in Dayton, Ohio, USA.1927 (-) Jenny Randolph is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 35 in Buffalo, New York, USA.1929 (+) Lutheran Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz is born in Willkischken, Lithuania.1947 (+) Artist Orlan is born in Saint Etienne, Loire, France.1960 (+) Victim of Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, Beth Wilmot is born in Portland, Oregon, USA.1960 (-) Writer Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Peredelkino, Russia.1961 (-) Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo is assassinated at the age of 70 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.1961 (x) 61 Die in KLM DC-8 crash in Portugal.1963 (+) Nude model and pornographic performer Shauna Grant originally Colleen Marie Applegate aka Callie Aimes, is born in Bellflower, California, USA.1969 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is arrested in Portland, Oregon, USA.1972 (x) 26 Die and 80 are injured when three gunmen from the Revolutionary Japanese Red Army open fire in the passenger terminal of Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israël.1972 (x) Start of the trial against Communist militant group The Angry Brigade in London, United Kingdom.1981 (-) President Zia Ur-Rahman is killed during a rebellion in Bangladesh.1985 (-) Arms-Factory director José Martinez-Parens is shot dead by the ETA at the age of 32 in Spain.1985 (-) Carol Kyle is attacked and raped by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, in Los Angeles, Burbank, California, USA.She survived.1993 (-) Musician Sun Ra originally Herman Poole Blount officially Le Sony’r Ra, dies of pneumonia at the age of 79 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.1994 (-) Inventor of the ‘bic’, Marcel Bich dies at the age of 79 in France.1999 (x) 37-year-old Mass Murderer Zhao Lianrong stabs eight women to death in Bejing, China.2002 (-) Murderer Stanley Allison Jr. Baker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2006 (-) Serial Killer Metod Trobec aka The Monster of Gorejne Vasi, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 57 in Slovenia.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Dennis Tyfus performing at the Scheld'Apen in Antwerpen, Belgium.1439 (+) 215th Pope Pius III originally Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, is born in Siena, Italy.1601 (x) 29-year-old Artist Michelangelo Merisi di Caravaggio kills Ranuccio Tomassoni in a brawl in Milan, Italy.He was outlawed and fled to Naples.1880 (+) Historian and philosopher Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler is born in Blankenburg, Brandenburg, Germany.1894 (+) Filmmaker Josef von Sternberg originally Jonas Stern, is born in Vienna, Austria.1903 (+) Actor and musician Bob Leslie Townes Hope is born in London, Eltham, United Kingdom.1913 (x) 30-year-old Composer Igor Fyodorowitsch Strawinsky his ballet "Le Sacre du Printemps" premieres in Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, France.The premiere involved one of the most famous classical music riots in history.1914 (-) Weapon designer Paul von Mauser dies at the age of 75 in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany.1914 (-) Murderess Augusta Fullam dies of a heat-stroke at the age of 40 in Agra Prison, India.1914 (x) 1024 Die in Empress of Ireland Ocean liner shipwreck in St. Lawrence, Canada.It collided with the collier.1917 (+) 35th president of the USA John Fitzgerald Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachussets, USA.1922 (+) Composer Iannis Xenakis is born in Braila, Romania.1923 (-) Hans Sonnenfeld is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 19 in Hannover, Germany.1953 (x) 33-year-old Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary and Tensing Norkey are he first men to reach the top of Mount Everest in Nepal.1955 (+) Attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan,John Warnock Jr. Hinkley is born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA.1956 (+) Musician La Toya Yvonne Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana, USA.1957 (-) Horror filmmaker James Whale commits suicide by drowning in his swimming pool at the age of 67 in Hollywood, California, USA.1966 (+) Child kidnapper and murderer Robert Anderson is born in Great Lakes, Illinois, USA.1970 (-) Ex-president Pedro Eugenio Arambaru is kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Argentina.1970 (-) Artist Eva Hesse dies of cancer at the age of 34 in New York, New York, USA.1971 (-) David Hilligiest is killed by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 13 in Houston Heights, Texas, USA.1973 (-) Rosa Vasquez is presumably strangled by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.1973 (-) Eugène Stephan is beaten and shot dead by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 25 in Laigneville Cemetary, France.1979 (-) Actress Mary Pickford originally Gladys Louise Smith aka America’s Sweetheart aka The Girl with the Curls, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 86 in Santa Monica, California, USA.1981 (x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "My Coat is My House" in Hamburg, Künstlerhaus, Germany.1982 (-) Actress Romy Schneider originally Rose-Marie Magdalena Albach-Retty, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 43 in Paris, France.1985 (x) 39 Die in collapse of a retaining wall between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus F.C. fans in Brussel, Heysel Stadium, Brabant, Belgium.Hundreds of fans are injured.1987 (-) Murderer William Boyd Tucker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Jackson, Georgia, USA.1990 (-) Raymond Smith aka Ricky Beeks, is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 32 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.1994 (-) Architect of East Germany Erich Honecker dies of liver cancer at the age of 81 in Santiago, Chili.1998 (x) The California Board of Prison Terms takes 20 minutes to deny parole to 48-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten aka Lulu, in Frontera, Institution for Women, California, USA.

Friday, May 28, 2010

The new wooden floor in our kitchen in Antwerpen, Belgium.1738 (+) Physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin is born in Manchester, United Kingdom.1840 (+) Artist Hans Makart is born in Salzburg, Austria.1905 (+) Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is born in Tokyo, Kanda, Japan.1906 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is convicted to 3 months imprisonment for fraud in Paris, France.1908 (+) Writer Ian Lancaster Fleming is born in London, Mayfair, United Kingdom.1921 (+) Writer Heinz Gunther Konsalik is born in Köln, Germany.1923 (+) Composer Gyorgi Sandor Ligeti is born in Diciosanmartin, Tirnaeni, Romania.1935 (x) 23-year-old Wife-to-be of Reichsführer Adolf Hitler for one day Eva Anna Paula Braun is found unconscious after swallowing 35 tablets of Vanodorm in München, Germany.She recovered a couple of days later.1940 (x) Belgium capitulates for Nazi-Germany in WWII..1940 (-) Murderer Boyd Wilson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 44 in Nevada, USA.1942 (-) Gladys Hosking is strangled by Edward Leonski aka The Singing Strangler, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.He wanted to get her voice.1944 (+) Musician Gladys Knight is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.1947 (-) Nazi-doctor in Auschwitz and Mauthausen Friedrich Entress is executed by hanging in Landsberg, Germany.1948 (-) Supposed mistress of Adolf Hitler,Unity Valkyrie Mitford dies due to injuries inflicted in a suicide-attempt 10 years earlier at the age of 33 in Oban, United Kingdom.1949 (+) Musician Wendy O. Orlean Williams aka The Queen of Shock Rock, is born in Webster, New York, USA.1959 (x) 92 Die in train derailment in Java.1964 (x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for car theft in Oklahoma City, USA.1965 (x) Over 400 Die in coal-mine explosion in Bihar, India.1971 (-) Most decorated American soldier of WWII Audie Leon Murphy is killed in a plane crash at the age of 45 in Catawba, Virginia, USA.The pilot and four passengers also died.1972 (-) Ex-King of England Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Edward VIII aka The Duke of Windsor, dies of throat cancer at the age of 77 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, 4 Rue du Champ d'Entrainement, France.1973 (-) Artist Jacques Chaim Jacob Lipchitz dies at the age of 81 in Capri, Italy.1974 (x) 6 die in a bomb-attack during an anti-fascist rally in Brescia, Italy.1977 (x) 160 Die in Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky, USA.1981 (-) Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski aka The Primate of the Millennium, dies at the age of 79 in Warsaw, Poland.1981 (x) 24-year-old IRA-member Martin Edward Hurson originally Mairtin O hUrsain, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.1986 (-) Wilfred Parkes is choked to death by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 70 in London, Stockwell Park Estate, Albamarle House, United Kingdom.1987 (-) Murderer Anthony Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1993 (-) Christopher Dunn is tortured to death by Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, at the age of 37 in London, United Kingdom.1996 (-) Sabine Dardenne is abducted and held imprisoned by Marc Dutroux at the age of 13 in Kain, Belgium.She was locked up in a cellar for 80 days.1997 (x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Thomas Quick originally Sture Ragnar Bergwall, is convicted to indefinite confinement in a security asylum for the criminally insane for the 1988 murder of the Israeli tourist Yinon Levy in Sweden.This is his fourth conviction for the serial killer who has confessed to 15 killings.1997 (-) Double Murderer Robert Madden is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2002 (-) Murderer Napoleon Beazley is executed by lethal injection at the age of 25 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2003 (-) Theoretical chemist Ilya Prigogine dies at the age of 86 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.2007 (-) Japanese minister of Agriculture Toshikatsu Matsuoka commits suicide by hanging at the age of 62 in Tokyo, Japan.He was involved in several corruption scandals.2007 (-) Artist Jörg Immendorff dies of heart failure and Lou Gehrig's Disease at the age of 61 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

A piled up car upon AMVK's return from a three month residency at Cité International des Arts in Paris, France.1827 (x) 18-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe enlists in the US Army as private Edgar A. Perry in Boston, Fort Independence, Massachusetts, USA.1837 (+) Gunfighter James Butler Hickok aka Wild Bill Hickok, is born in Troy Grove, Illinois, USA.1840 (-) Composer Niccolo Paganini dies of a lung bleeding due to pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 57 in Nice, France.1850 (+) Serial Killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.1853 (-) Slave and murderess Jane Elkins is executed by hanging in Dallas, Texas, USA.She is the first woman to be executed in Texas.1863 (-) Murderer Claudous C. Frizell is executed by hanging in Fort Scott, Kansas, USA.1878 (+) Choreographer Isadora Angela Duncan aka The Mother of Modern Dance, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.1891 (x) 36-year-old Writer Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud has his left leg amputated because of carcinoma in Marseille, France.1894 (+) Writer Louis Ferdinand Destouches Celine is born in Courbevoie, Asnières, France.1894 (+) Writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett is born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, USA.1897 (-) Beaupied is strangled by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 14 in France.1911 (+) Actor Vincent Leonard Price is born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.1919 (-) Bacteriologist Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Baden-Baden, Germany.1921 (+) Robber, kidnapper and rapist Caryl Whittler Chessman aka The Red Light Bandit, is born in St. Joseph, Michigan, USA.1922 (+) Actor Christopher Frank Carandini Lee known from “Dracula”, is born in Belgravia, Westminster, United Kingdom.1923 (+) Politician Henry Heinz Alfred Kissinger is born in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany.1940 (-) Murderer Mateo Quinionis is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Hawaï, USA.1941 (x) 37-year-old Nazi-leader Richard Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich is fatally wounded in an assault by Josef Gabcik and Kan Kubis in Prague, Holesovice, Czechoslowakia.1958 (+) Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, is born in Atlanta, Dixie Hills, Georgia, USA.1960 (+) Reporter David Hans Schmidt aka The Sultan of Sleaze, is born in Rochester, Minnesota, USA.1966 (x) 6 French army-jets crash due to a lack of fuel in Spain.1969 (-) Darwin Scott is stabbed to death and mutilated by persons unknown at the age of 64 in the USA.He was the brother of Colonel Smith.1978 (-) Eric Christgen is abducted and killed by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 4 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.1993 (x) 5 Die in a Maffia bomb-attack on the famous Uffizi-Museum in Firenze, Italy.1994 (-) Triple Murderer Charles Campbell is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.1994 (-) Cop Killer Stephen Ray Nethery is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2003 (-) Composer Luciano Berio dies at the age of 77 in Rome, Italy.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

A Club Moral rehearsal with lots of recording gear and a flakey Wasp synth in Antwerpen, Belgium.1478 (+) 219th Pope Clementius VII originally Giulio di Giuliano de Medici, is born in Florence, Italy.1647 (-) Witch Alse Young is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Windsor, Connecticut, USA.She was the first person in the records executed for witchcraft in the USA.1822 (x) 116 Die in Grue Church fire in Skulstad, Norway.1828 (x) 16-year-old Kaspar Casparus Hauser aka The Wild Child, is found on a market square in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany.1853 (+) Outlaw and gunman John Wesley Hardin is born in Bonham, Texas, USA.1867 (+) Queen consort of the United Kingdom Victoria Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes Mary of Teck is born in London, Kensington Palace, United Kingdom.1883 (+) Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, is born in Mulheim-am-Rhein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.1884 (-) Husband murderess Mary Lefley is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Lincoln, United Kingdom.She had to be dragged to the gallows screaming "murder, murder!" and struggling with the warders.1886 (+) Singer Al Jolson originally Asa Yoelson aka The World’s Greatest Entertainer, is born in Seredzius, Lithuania.1899 (+) War criminal and art collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.1904 (-) Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Edouard Brutus de la Tourette dies due to depression and hypomania at the age of 46 in Lausanne, Switzerland.1907 (+) Actor John Wayne originally Marion Michael Morrison, is born in Winterset, Iowa, USA.1913 (+) Horror film actor Peter Wilton Cushing is born in Kenley, Surrey, United Kingdom.1916 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, sets fire to the State Penitentiary’s flax mill and workshops in Oregon, USA.1920 (+) Singer, songwriter and actress Peggy Lee originally Norma Deloris Egstrom, is born in Jamestown, North Dakota, USA.1922 (x) 52-year-old Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is hit by a stroke in Moscow, Russia.1924 (-) Fritz Wittig is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.1926 (+) Musician Miles Dewey III Davis is born in Alton, Illinois, USA.1928 (+) Life Terminator Jack Kevorkian aka Doctor Death, is born in Pontiac, Michigan, USA.1938 (-) Murderer Robert Hoolhouse is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Durham Gaol, United Kingdom.1938 (+) Murderess Pauline Parker aka Heavenly Creature, is born in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.1946 (-) Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Paris, Prison de la Santé, France.1946 (+) Musician Michael “Mick” Ronson is born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.1954 (x) 103 Die in US Bennington aircraftcarrier explosion.1954 (+) Serial Killer Danny Harold Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper, is born in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.1956 (+) Army Veteran and Suicide Pilot Frank Eugene Corder is born in Perry Point, Maryland, USA.1957 (+) Serial Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, is born in Gateshead, United Kingdom.1976 (-) Philosopher Martin Heidegger dies at the age of 86 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.1983 (x) The Public Health Service announces AIDS to be the number 1 public health menace in the USA.1984 (-) Michelle Simms is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, at the age of 22 in Tampa, Florida, USA.1991 (x) 223 Die in Lauda-Air Flight 004 Boeing 767-3Z9ER "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" crash in Phu Toei National Park, Suphanburi, Thailand.1991 (-) Konerak Sinthasomphone is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 14 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.2003 (-) Falun Gong member Li Rongxian is tortured to death at the age of 44 in Jiutai Forced Labour Camp, Jilin, China.He also suffered of advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis.2008 (-) Filmmaker Sydney Irwin Pollack dies of stomach cancer at the age of 73 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Sickboy performing at Factor 44 in Borgerhout, Belgium.1085 (-) Pope Gregorius VII originally Hildebrand of Sovana, dies in exile at the age of 65 in Salerno, Apulia, Italy.1261 (-) Pope Alexander IV originally Rinaldo di Jenne, dies at the age of 62 in Viterbo, Italy.1865 (+) Founder of the WMCA John Raleigh Mott is born in New York, Livingston Manor, New York, USA.1865 (x) 300 Die in ordnance depot explosion in Mobile, Alabama, USA.1887 (+) Stigmatized Monk Father Pio of Pietrelcina originally Francesco Forgione, is born in Pietrelcina, Italy.1889 (+) Aircraft pioneer Igor Iwanowitsch Sikorsky is born in Kiev, Russia.1892 (+) President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito is born in Kumrovec, Croatia, Yugoslavia.1895 (x) 40-year-old Writer Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to two years in prison in London, United Kingdom.1913 (-) Christine Klein is killed by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 9 in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1927 (+) Writer Robert Ludlum is born in New York, New York, USA.1943 (x) In a letter to Enrico Fermi, 39-year-old Scientist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Julius Oppenheimer discusses the possibility of infecting food with Strontium 90, whereby easily about 1/2 million people could be killed at once in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.1954 (+) IRA-member Michael James Devine originally Micheal O Duibhinn, is born in Derry, Ireland.1956 (+) IRA-member Kevin Lynch originally Caoimhghin O Loinsigh, is born in Dungiven, Londonderry, Ireland.1961 (-) Murderer Victor John Terry is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Bedford, United Kingdom.1963 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to the 2nd floor of a building he owns, collecting 15000$ on insurance in Philadelphia, 2039 East Fletcher Street, Pennsylvania, USA.1968 (-) Martin Brown is strangled by Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, at the age of 4 in Newcastle, Scotswood, 85 St. Margaret’s Road, Scotland, United Kingdom.1969 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is arrested and questioned but released by the FBI in Corvallis, Callahan Hall Lounge, Oregon, USA.1974 (x) Miguel Rivera is arrested on suspicion of being the Unidentified murderer Charlie Chopoff but is never brought to trial in New York, Eighth Street, New York, USA.1977 (x) 2 unidentified burglars are blown to pieces whilst robbing a safe in a dynamite warehouse in Hunnerberg, Sweden.1978 (x) 36-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap bomb in the parking lot of the Engineering Department in Chicago, University Circle Campus, Illinois, USA.The bomb explodes the next day, when opened at the Northwestern Technological Institute police department, one person is injured.1979 (-) Murderer John Arthur Spenkelink is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.After the execution, unfounded rumors spread that the fighting, shouting Spenkelink was dragged to the electric chair, gagged, beaten, and had his neck broken.1979 (x) 279 Die in Panam DC-10 crash in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1979 (x) 271 Die in American Airlines Flight 191 McDonnel Douglas DC-10 crash during takeoff in Chicago, O'Hare International Airport, Illinois, USA.1983 (x) 294 Die in 10th of the Ramadan Ferry explosion in Nasser Lake, Egypt.1984 (-) Sue Luna is abducted and killed by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 23 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.1984 (-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.1985 (x) Over 400 Die in M.V. Shamia Ferry capsizing in Meghna River, Bangladesh.1986 (+) Juvenile mass murderer Andrew Golden aka Drew Douglas Grant, is born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA.1989 (-) Murderer Stephen McCoy is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1990 (-) GRAPO-terrorist Jose Manuel Sevillano dies after 177 days hungerstriking at the age of 30 in Madrid, prison hospital, Spain.2000 (-) Murderer James Edward Clayton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2002 (x) 197 Die in train crash in Tenga, Mozambique.2006 (-) Musician Desmond Adolphus Dekker originally Dacres, dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in London, Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom.2007 (x) 21-year-old Juvenile mass murderer Andrew Golden aka Drew Douglas Grant, is released from prison after serving 9 years for the Jonesboro Massacre in Alexander, Youth Services Division Juvenile Facility, Arkansas, USA.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Shooting windows in Central Station in Antwerpen, Belgium.1494 (+) Artist Jacopo Pontormo originally Jacopo Carucci, is born in Pontormo, Italy.1543 (-) Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies of a stroke at the age of 70 in Frombork, Poland.1686 (+) Physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit is born in Gdansk, Poland.1743 (+) Activist in the French Revolution Jean-Paul Marat is born in Boudry, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.1819 (+) Queen Alexandrina Victoria is born in London, Kensington Palace, United Kingdom.1899 (+) Writer and painter Henri Michaux is born in Namur, Namur, Belgium.1909 (+) Heart patient Dr. Philip Blaiberg is born in Uniondale, South Africa.1917 (-) Double Murderer Dr. Arthur Warren Waite is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.1930 (x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, is arrested in Düsseldorf, Mettmanner Straße, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1935 (-) Murderer Tellie McQuate is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, USA.1940 (+) Poet Joseph Brodsky originally Iosif Aleksandrowitsch Brodsky, is born in Leningrad, Russia.1941 (+) Musician Bob Dylan originally Robert Zimmerman, is born in Duluth, Minnesota, USA.1945 (+) Actress Priscilla Presley is born in New York, New York, USA.1954 (+) Murderer Arthur Martin Ross is born in Arizona, USA.1956 (+) Rapist and child-murderer Steven Timothy Judy is born in Indiana, USA.1972 (x) 3 US-soldiers die and 5 are injured in a German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion bomb attack on the American Army Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany.The 15 Juli Commando claims responsability for the attack.1972 (-) Actress Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen dies at the age of 90 in Frederiksberg, Denmark.1974 (-) Musician Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington dies of lung cancer at the age of 75 in New York, New York, the USA.1975 (-) Mass-Murderer Russel Smith commits suicide by a shot through the head in Dayton, Ohio, USA.1982 (x) Suzanne Wagner escapes after being held imprisoned as a sex-slave for over a year by Sex Researcher Dr. Ulrich Kochwald in Regensburg, Germany.1983 (+) Model and actress Seung-yeon Woo is born in Seoul, South Korea.1985 (x) Serial Killer Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Frankfurt, Germany.1987 (x) Almost a million people walk from each side over the Golden Gate Bridge on it’s 50th anniversary festivity-day in San Francisco, California, USA.1991 (-) Anthony Hughes is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 31 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.2000 (-) Murderer Richard Donald Foster is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2006 (-) Double murderer Jesus Ledesma Aguilar is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2007 (-) Murderer Christopher Newton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Ohio, USA.It took the medics over 2 hours to find a suitable artery to insert the syringes.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

My Chinese raincoat on the bed in my temporary dwelling during a performance festival in Tampere, Finland.1430 (x) 18-year-old Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve the city in Compiègne, France.1734 (+) Physician and inventor of Animal Magnetism Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer is born in Moos, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.1848 (+) Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal aka The Glider King, is born in Anklam, Pomerania, Germany.1868 (-) Trapper Christopher “Kit” Houston Carson dies of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at the age of 58 in Fort Lyon, Colorado, USA.1883 (+) Actor Douglas Fairbanks originally Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman, is born in Denver, Colorado, USA.1892 (-) Mass murderer of his first wife and four children and second wife Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston, is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Old Melbourne Gaol, Victoria, Australia.About 10.000 spectators showed up.1906 (-) Writer Hendrik Ibsen dies of a stroke at the age of 78 in Oslo, Norway.1910 (+) Artist Franz Jozef Kline is born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.1910 (+) Musician and bandleader Artie Shaw originally Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, is born in New York City, New York, USA.1918 (-) Joseph Maggio is hacked to death by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.His wife is also killed in the same event.1923 (-) Roland Hoch is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 15 in Hannover, Germany.1933 (+) Actress Joan Henrietta Collins is born in London, United Kingdom.1934 (-) Clyde Barker and Bonnie Parker are shot dead by the police at the age of 25 and 23 in Gibsland, Louisiana, USA.They were lured in an ambush by an accomplice.1934 (+) Musician and inventor Robert Arthur Moog is born in New York, New York, USA.1936 (-) Multiple Child-Murderer Adolf Seefeld is executed by the Guillotine in Berlin, Germany.1937 (-) Philantropist and industrialist John Davison Rockefeller dies of arteriosclerosis at the age of 97 in Ormond Beach, Florida, USA.1939 (+) Composer Michel Colombier is born in Lyon, France.1939 (+) Mountain climber Junko Tabei is born in Japan.1945 (-) Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 44 in Lüneburg, Germany.1950 (+) Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is born in Sacramento, California, USA.1958 (+) Victim of Harvey Louis Carignan, The Want-Ad Killer, Kathy Sue Miller is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.1958 (-) Murderer Emil Tillman commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 41 in Germany.1959 (-) Murderer Edward Eckwerth is executed by Old Sparky in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.1964 (x) 328 Die in soccer riot caused by a denied goal in the game Peru-Argentina in Lima, Peru.1967 (x) 4-year-old Zeena LaVey is the first person to receive a legal Satanic baptism ever in San Francisco, The Church of Satan, California, USA.1969 (-) Paul Adam Meyer crashes in the Channel with a Hercules C-130 he had stolen from Cambridge airbase at the age of 23 in Alderney, United Kingdom.1970 (+) Assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Yigal Amir is born in Herzliya, Israël.1981 (x) 25-year-old IRA-member Kevin Lynch originally Caoimhghin O Loinsigh, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.1988 (-) Psychopatic killer Roberto Succo aka ‘André’, commits suicide by opening a gas refill in a plastic bag over his head in his prison cell at the age of 26 in Vicenza, Italy.1989 (x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is sentenced to 5 years probation for sexual assault and enticing a child for immoral purposes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.1991 (-) Murderer Ignacio Cuevas is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1994 (-) George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, dies at the age of 90 in Waterbury, New York, USA.1997 (-) Artist James Lee Byars dies at the age of 65 in Cairo, Egypt.2000 (-) Falun Gong member Yulan Mei dies in police detention after she was fatally injured during force-feeding at the age of 44 in Minghang hospital, Beijing, China.On may 17 she was force-fed by an inmate who had no medical skills at all, the feeding tube was wrongly inserted causing serious injuries. After she returned to her cell she had a headache and started to vomit blood, lapsed into a coma and never regained consciousness again. She was the 19th Falungong member to die in police custody.2000 (-) Murderer James David Richardson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2007 (x) 72-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is denied parole for the 11th time in Corcoran, California, USA.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Two oddly shaped men discussing art at an opening of AMVK at Barbara Thumm Gallery in Berlin, Germany.1667 (-) 237th Pope Alexander VII originally Fabio Chigi, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Italy.1783 (+) Inventor of electromagnets William Sturgeon is born in Whittington, Lancashire, United Kingdom.1813 (+) Composer Richard Wilhelm Wagner is born in Leipzig, Germany.1859 (+) Writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.1885 (-) Writer Victor Marie Hugo dies of pneumonia at the age of 83 in Paris, France.1907 (+) Actor and filmmaker Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier is born in Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom.1907 (+) Artist Georges Prosper Remi aka Hergé, is born in Etterbeek, Brabant, Belgium.1914 (+) Musician Sun Ra originally Herman Poole Blount officially Le Sony’r Ra, is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.1915 (x) 227 Die in three train collision in Gretna Green, Scotland, United Kingdom.1924 (+) Musician Charles Aznavour originally Shahnour Vaghinagh Aznavourian, is born in Paris, France.1925 (+) Artist Jean Tinguely is born in Fribourg, Switzerland.1925 (-) Murderer L. W. Peare is executed by hanging at the age of 67 in Oregon, USA.He went on a moonshine spree and killed his wife among others.1925 (-) Murderer Arthur Covell is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Oregon, USA.1930 (+) Public supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Bernard Milk is born in Woodmere, New York, USA.1940 (+) Actor Michael Jacques Andre Sarrazin known from “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, is born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.1942 (+) Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1951 (+) Serial Killer Kenneth Alessio Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, is born in Rochester, New York, USA.1957 (-) Wife murderer Leonard Coey is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 58 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1957 (+) Murderer John Dennis Daniels is born in North Carolina, USA.1960 (+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Jacqueline Hill is born in the United Kingdom.1962 (-) Robber and mass murderer Thomas G. Doty blows up a Continental Airlines Flight 11 Boeing 707 as an insurance fraud in Unionville, Missouri, USA.37 other passengers and 7 crew also died in the explosion.1964 (-) Spree killer Reuben Rolle commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 30 in Nassau, Bahamas.He first shot 6 people in the Grove Club.1967 (x) 252 Die in L’Innovation department store fire in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.The fire inspired the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe to use this kind of disaster as a terrorist action, something they would actually do less than a year later.1968 (x) 99 Die in USS Scorpion nuclear submarine shipwreck in the Atlantic.1970 (+) Fashion Model Naomi Campbell is born in Streatham, South London, United Kingdom.1971 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Lynn Rader aka The BTK Killer, marries Paula Dietz in Park City, Kansas, USA.1972 (x) Ceylon adopts a new constitution and changes its name to Sri Lanka .1972 (+) Triple murderer Riley Dobi Noel is born in Arkansas, USA.1980 (-) Leslie O’Dell is tortured by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 18 in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, USA.They spent 3 hours of rape and sexual torture in room 117 of the Quality Inn Motel, Cottingham was arrested later that day.1981 (x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is convicted to life-imprisonment for killing 13 women in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1981 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, is questioned by the police near the Chattahoochee River where three days later the body of 27-year-old Nathaniel Cater was found in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.1981 (x) 25-year-old IRA-member Kieran Doherty originally Ciaran O Dochartaigh, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.1982 (-) Angela Marks is raped and stabbed to death by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.1987 (-) Murderer Richard Tucker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.1990 (-) Boxer Rocky Graziano originally Thomas Rocco Barbella, dies of cardiopulmonary failure at the age of 71 in New York City, New York, USA.1992 (-) Murder-instigator Robert Black is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.He hired John Wayne Hearn to kill his wife Sandra.1992 (x) 66-year-old TV-host Johnny Carson presents his last show on NBC in Hollywood, California, USA.For the last time America heard "Heeeeeeere's Johnny!".1997 (-) Poet Herman De Coninck dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Lissabon, Portugal.1997 (-) Murderer Larry White is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2002 (-) Murderer Johnny Joe Martinez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2007 (-) Murderer Robert Comer is executed by lethal injection in Arizona, USA.

Friday, May 21, 2010

A shadow of me standing above the hydro-energy plant in the centre of Tampere, Finland.1471 (+) Artist Albrecht Dürer is born in Nürnberg, Germany.1633 (+) Composer Joseph De La Barre is born in France.1844 (+) Artist Henri Julien Félix Rousseau aka Le Douanier, is born in Laval, Mayenne, France.1873 (-) Johanna Swanenburg is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, at the age of 12 in Leiden, the Netherlands.1907 (+) German ambassador Karl Maria von Spreti is born in Landshut, Germany.1916 (+) Writer Harold Robbins originally Francis Kane and given the adoptive name Harold Rubin, is born in New York, New York, USA.1918 (-) An unidentified girl is assaulted by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in California, USA.1921 (+) Physicist, dissident and Human Rights activist Andrei Dmitrievitsch Sakharov is born in Moscow, Russia.1921 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is charged with assault on a child and sent to an asylum in San Francisco, California, USA.1924 (-) Bobby Franks is kidnapped and killed by Nathan & Richard Leopold & Loeb aka The Perfect Murderers, at the age of 14 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1927 (x) 25-year-old Aviation pioneer Charles Augustus Lindbergh aka The Lone Eagle, is the first man to fly from New York to Paris non-stop.1932 (x) 34-year-old Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, landing in in Derry, Ireland.1943 (x) 46-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is arrested by the French Gestapo, suspected of leading an escape-route for jews in Paris, France.1951 (+) Serial Killer Douglas Edward Gretzler is born in Arizona, USA.Along with mental hospital escapee Willie Luther Steelman, he killed 19 people.1954 (-) Murderer Nathaniel Germany is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.1960 (+) Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is born in Milwaukee, Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, Wisconsin, USA.1963 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to the basement of a building he owns, collecting 15000$ on insurance in Philadelphia, 2039 East Fletcher Street, Pennsylvania, USA.1963 (+) Murderer Donald Jay Miller is born in Arizona, USA.1965 (-) Mass-Murderer Roger Girard commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 34 in Chavagneux, France.He first killed his 34-year-old wife Jeannette, his 58-year-old mother Angèle, his 23-year-old brother Robert and 10-year-old Eliane, 8-year-old Jacqueline, 7-year-old Bernard, 4-year-old Yves, 2-year-old Daniel, 16-months-old Sylvianne and 6-months-old Pierre.1968 (x) 26-year-old Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkin Jones is arrested for marijuana possession in United Kingdom.1970 (-) Jutta Rahn is strangled by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 13 in Breitscheid, Germany.Her 20-year-old boyfriend Peter Schay is charged with the crime and spent 15 months in prison before he was released due to lack of evidence.1972 (x) 32-year-old Michelangelo’s ‘Piëta’-attacker Laszlo Toth strikes in the St-Peters-Dom in Rome, Italy.1972 (-) Billy Baulch is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 17 in Houston, the Heights, Texas, USA.1975 (x) Start of the trial against the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion members Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Germany.1976 (x) The artificial respiration for 22-year-old Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, is stopped in St. Claire's Hospital, New Jersey, USA.She would remain in a coma for almost 10 years until her death.1981 (-) IRA-member Raymond Peter McCreesh originally Réamann Mac Raois, dies after 61 days of hungerstriking at the age of 24 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.He was the third to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.1981 (-) IRA-member Patrick Patsy O’Hara originally Padraig or Peatsai O hEadra, dies after 61 days of hungerstriking at the age of 23 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.He was the fourth to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.1988 (x) 32-year-old Elite-sergeant Marciano Contaoe shoots 11 people in a drunken rage in Manila, the Fillipines.1989 (x) Over 150 Die in Darma Mulia Ferry capsizing in Street of Lombok, Indonesia.1996 (x) About 800 Die in MV Bukoba steamer sinking in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.Among the victims was Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, who was at the time second in command of the Al Qaeda.1997 (-) Murderer Bruce Callins is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1998 (x) 15-year-old Spree killer Kip Kipland Philip Kinkel drives to his school where he starts a shooting rampage that kills two of his classmates and wounds another 22 in Springfield, Thurston High School cafeteria, Oregon, USA.The day before he had been expelled from school for possession of a handgun, in the evening he killed his parents to protect them from the embarrassment that his expulsion would have caused.2000 (-) Founder of Herbalife International Inc. Mark Reynolds Hughes dies of a combination of alcohol and anti-depressant Doxepin at the age of 44 in Malibu, California, USA.2000 (-) Actor John Gielgud dies at the age of 96 in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.2002 (-) Artist Niki Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle dies at the age of 71 in La Jolla, California, USA.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

The road to nowhere on a lake near Tampere, Finland.1277 (-) 187th Pope John XXI originally Perdo Juliao, dies at the age of 62 in Viterbo, Italy.He died of injuries suffered in the collapse of a roof above his bedroom 8 days earlier.1509 (-) Explorer Christoffel Columbus dies of heart failure at the age of 58 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain.1521 (x) Jezuït Ignatius Inigo Lopez De Loyola is severely injured when a French cannonball shatters his leg in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain.1799 (+) Writer Honoré de Balzac is born in Tours, France.1851 (+) Inventor and founder of the Berliner Gramophone Company Emil Berliner is born in Hannover, Germany.1882 (+) Writer Sigrid Undset is born in Kalundborg, Zeeland, Denmark.1894 (-) Eugenie Delhomme is raped, strangled, her throat cut and her right breast severed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 20 in France.1908 (+) Actor James Maitland “Jimmy” Stewart is born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA.1915 (+) Politician and Military Leader Moshe Dayan is born in Degania, Palestine.1917 (x) Future 20-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, has his left foot ripped open by a German hand-grenade during a bitter fight in the Aisne, France.1925 (+) Aircraft designer Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev is born in Moscow, Russia.1927 (-) Murderer Charles J. Blackburn is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1940 (-) Flemish Nationalist Verdinaso Leader Joris Van Severen is brutally murdered by drunken partizans at the age of 45 in Abbéville, France.1944 (+) Musician Joe John Robert Cocker is born in Sheffield, United Kingdom.1946 (+) Musician Cher originally Cherilyn Sarkisian, is born in El Centro, California, USA.1952 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Christian Georg Alfred Klar is born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.1965 (x) 119 Die in Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 Boeing 720-040 B crash in Caïro International Airport, Egypt.1968 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is sentenced for sodomy and sent to the Iowa Men Reformatory in Anamosa, Iowa, USA.1981 (-) Carmen Riviera is presumably murdered by Zodiac in Hayward, California, USA.1992 (-) Murderer Roger Keith Coleman is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Virginia, USA.1992 (-) Murderer Jesus Romero is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1997 (-) Murderer Clarence Lackey is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Pressure valves in an old power plant in Gent, Belgium.1296 (-) 192nd Pope Celestinus V originally Pietro di Murrone, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.1536 (-) Second wife of Henry VIII,Anne Boleyn is executed by beheading in London, White Tower, United Kingdom.She had been charged with adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.1870 (+) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.1872 (-) Schoolmaster Johan Hendrik Van Dale dies of smallpocks at the age of 46 in the Netherlands.He compiled the New Dutch Language Wordbook.1881 (+) Architect of modern Turkey Kemal Mustafa Ataturk is born in Salonika, Greece.1890 (+) Leader of the Viet Minh Independence Movement Ho Chi Minh originally Nguyen Sinh Cung, is born in Hoang Tru Village, Nghe An Province, Vietnam.1916 (-) Murderer Francisco Rodriguez is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.1918 (-) Artist Ferdinand Hodler dies at the age of 65 in Bern, Switzerland.1925 (+) Revolutionary leader Malcolm X originally Malcolm Little aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.1928 (x) 195 Die in coal-mine explosion in Mather, USA.1928 (+) Architect of the Red Khmer Communist Party Pol Pot originally Saloth Sar, is born in Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thum, French Indochina.1933 (-) Murderer Luke Nichols is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma, USA.1933 (+) Murderer Claude Buffet is born in Reims, France.1935 (-) Man of Action Thomas Edward Lawrence of Arabia, dies due to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident six days earlier at the age of 46 in Bovington, Dorset, United Kingdom.1945 (+) Musician Pete Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend is born in Chiswick, London, United Kingdom.1948 (+) Musician Grace Jones originally Grace Mendoza, is born in Spanishtown, Jamaica.1951 (+) Punk Rocker Joey Ramone originally Jeffry Ross Hyman, is born in Queens, New York, USA.1954 (-) Composer Charles Edward Ives dies at the age of 79 in West Riding, Connecticut, USA.1969 (+) Filmmaker and founder of Dogme 95 Thomas Vinterberg is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.1971 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Clifford Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, is arrested in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.1971 (x) A male corpse is found on the ranch of 37-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona in Yuba City, California, USA.In the next days a total of 24 bodies was excavated.1972 (x) The Axel-Springer building is bombed by the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion in Hamburg, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse, Germany.The 2 Juni Commando claims responsability for the attack.1975 (x) Supposed Murderer Patrick Paddy Connolly Meehan is granted a Royal Pardon and released from prison in Peterhead, United Kingdom.1981 (-) Sandra Wolfsteiner is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 16 in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.1987 (-) Science fiction writer Alice Bradley Sheldon aka James Tiptree, Jr., commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 71 in McLean, Virginia, USA.She killed her sick and blind 84-year-old husband first.1994 (-) First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis originally Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie, dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 64 in New York, New York, USA.1994 (-) Cyclist Luis Jesús Ocaña commits suicide by a gunshot at the age of 48 in Nogaro, Gers, France.1997 (-) Triple Murderer Richard Drinkard is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1998 (-) Murderer Pedro Cruz Muniz is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (-) Murderer Richard Cartwright is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

A fine tool for older dogs who are in need of some couch comfort in a shopwindow in Pori, Finland.1781 (-) Revolutionary Leader Túpac Amaru II originally José Gabriel Condorcanqui, is executed by quartering and beheading at the age of 39 in Cuzco, Peru.He was forced to bear witness to the execution of his wife, his eldest son Hipólito, his uncle Francisco, his brother-in-law Antonio Bastidas, and some of his captains before his own death.1812 (-) Assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, John Bellingham is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.1872 (+) Philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russel is born in Trelleck, Gwent, United Kingdom.1883 (+) Architect of the Bauhaus Walter Gropius is born in Berlin, Germany.1889 (+) Inventor and chemist Thomas Midgley is born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA.1896 (x) 1389 Die in a mass panic during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II in Moscow, Khodynka Field, Russia.Several thousands of people had gathered to receive free gifts of a bread roll, a piece of sausage, pretzels, gingerbread, and a mug.1897 (+) Filmmaker Frank Russel Capra originally Francesco Rosario, is born in Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy.1911 (-) Composer Gustav Mahler dies of bacterial endocarditis at the age of 50 in Vienna, L w sanatorium, Austria.1912 (+) Musician Perry Como is born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.1920 (+) 264th Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Jozef Wojtila, is born in Wadowice, Poland.1927 (+) Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is born in Fargo, North Dakota, USA.1927 (x) 55-year-old Mass murderer Andrew Kehoe wires the Consolidated School with dynamite, killing 38 children and 5 adults in Bath Township, Michigan, USA.The night before he had stabbed his wife to death. Andrew himself also died in the blast when he fired into his car, still loaded with more dynamite.1928 (x) The home of 54-year-old Sing-Sing Prison Chief Executioner Robert Greene Elliott is bombed by persons unknown in New York, New York, USA.It was presumed to be a revenge for the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti.1937 (-) Murderess Christine Papin dies of cachexia at the age of 32 in Rennes, France.1939 (-) Serial Killer Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 31 in Paris, outside Prison Saint-Pierre, rue Georges Clémenceau, France.It was the last public execution and the last one before the outbreak of the war.1942 (-) Murderer John Stanton is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Florida, USA.1952 (+) Mass murderer David Burke is born in New York, USA.1953 (x) The body of Beryl Evans is exhumed to establish if 55-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, had indeed murdered her, in London, Gunners Bury Cemetary, United Kingdom.1960 (+) Spree Killer Michael Robert Ryan aka The Rambo Killer, is born in Savernake, United Kingdom.1967 (-) Joyce Cassel is attacked and raped by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, in Portland, Oregon, USA.She survived.1969 (+) Satan Worshiper and Triple Murderer Sean Sellers aka Web of Darkness, is born in Oklahoma, USA.1971 (-) Elisabeth Porteous is raped, strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.1980 (-) Musician Ian Kevin Curtis from Joy Division, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 23 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom.1993 (-) Murderer John Sawyers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1998 (-) Murderer Robert A. Carter is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2004 (-) Double murderer Kelsey Patterson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (-) Murderer Bryan Eric Wolfe is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, May 17, 2010

AMVK being televised while drawing during an exhibition in Brugge, Belgium.1510 (-) Artist Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi Botticelli dies at the age of 65 in Florence, Italy.1866 (+) Composer Erik Satie is born in Honfleur, France.1868 (+) Automobile manufacturing pioneer Horace Elgin Dodge is born in Niles, Michigan, USA.1873 (+) Writer Henri Barbusse is born in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.1904 (+) Actor Jean Gabin originally Jean-Alexis Moncorgé, is born in Paris, France.1924 (x) Numerous skulls and bones are found in the river Leine between Schloss Herrenhausen and the Bruckmühle. They are all presumed victims of 44-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, in Hannover, Germany.1927 (x) 29-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for malicious wounding in London, South Western Magistrates Court, United Kingdom.1927 (-) Cop Killer Albert Brownlee is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Oregon, USA.1937 (+) Actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper is born in Dodge City, Kansas, USA.1950 (+) Founding Symbionese Liberation Army member Patricia Monique Soltysik aka Mizmoon, is born in Goleta, California, USA.1955 (+) Actress Debra Winger is born in Columbus, Ohio, USA.1974 (x) In a police raid on the Symbionese Liberation Army headquarters, six members die from smoke inhalation, burns and gunshot wounds in Los Angeles, 1466 East 54th Street, California, USA.The SLA dead were: Nancy Ling Perry aka Fahizah, Angela Atwood aka General Gelina, Willie Wolfe aka Cujo, who was reported to be Patricia Hearst's lover, Donald DeFreeze aka Cinque, and Patricia Soltysik aka Mizmoon.1978 (-) Vera Millward is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 41 in Manchester, United Kingdom.1979 (x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is sentenced to die in the Gas Chamber in Santa Clara County, California, USA.1990 (-) Murderer Johnny R. Anderson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1994 (-) Murderer John Thanos is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Maryland, USA.2006 (-) Double murderer Jermaine Herron is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Preparing for my performance "Wie Man dem Zerrissenen Hasen die Aktionskunst Erklärt" with a box filled with earth from my Hole in Antwerpen, Belgium.1611 (+) 240th Pope Innocentus XI originally Benedetto Odescalchi aka The Blessed, is born in Como, Italy.1836 (x) 27-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Eliza Clemm for the second time in Richmond, Virginia, USA.1860 (+) America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, is born in Gilmantown, New Hampshire, USA.1877 (+) Criminologist Bernard Henry Spilsbury is born in Leamington, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.1878 (-) Mass-poisoness Lydia Sherman aka The Borgia of Connecticut, dies at the age of 54 in the State Prison, Connecticut, USA.She poisoned three husbands and seven children with arsenic.1905 (+) Actor Henry Jaynes Fonda is born in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA.1919 (+) Entertainer and musician Wladziu Valentino Liberace is born in West Allis, Wisconsin, USA.1920 (+) Actress Martine Carol originally Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer, is born in Saint Mandé, Val de Marne, France.1920 (x) Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is canonised as a saint by Pope Benedict XV in Rome, Italy.1930 (-) Gertrud Bell is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1930 (+) Siemens chairman Karl-Heinz Beckurts is born in Rheydt, Germany.1938 (-) Actor Jack Dougherty commits suicide by coal-monoxide-poisoning at the age of 42 in the Hollywood Hills, California, USA.1940 (+) Filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci is born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.1944 (-) Henry Gein is presumably beaten to death and thrown into a fire by Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, at the age of 42 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA.1951 (+) Musician Jonathan Richman is born in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.1957 (-) FBI-agent Eliot P. Ness aka The Untouchable, dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Cleveland, USA.In one popular yet false anecdote, he died just as he was about to have the first alcoholic drink of his life.1966 (+) Musician Janet Damita Jo Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana, USA.1975 (-) Black Power leader Michael De Freitas aka Michael X aka Michael Abdul Malik, is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Port-of-Spain's Royal Gaol, Trinidad.1975 (x) Mountain climber Junko Tabei is the first woman to reach the top of the Mount Everest in Nepal.1975 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Khailid al-Mihdhar is born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.1984 (-) Writer Irwin Shaw originally Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff, dies of prostate cancer at the age of 71 in Davos, Switzerland.1985 (x) Unknown number Die in Aeroflot Iljoeshin crash in Sakhalin, Russia.1987 (-) Oleg Makerenkow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 13 in Swerdlowsk, Rewda, Ural, Russia.1990 (-) Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr dies of throat cancer at the age of 64 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.1990 (-) Creator of The Muppets Jim Henson dies of a bacterial infection at the age of 53 in New York, New York, USA.1990 (-) Dag Drollet is shot dead by Christian Brando at the age of 26 in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, the Brandon Estate, Mulholland Drive, California, USA.1992 (-) Astrologer Howard Sasportas dies of aids at the age of 44 in London, United Kingdom.1993 (x) 7 people are shot dead by persons unknown in a nightclub in Fresno, California, USA.1997 (-) Murderer Harry Charles Moore is executed by lethal injection in Oregon, USA.1997 (-) Murderer Clifton Belyeu is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (x) 36-year-old Spree Killer Günther Ewen goes on a shooting spree in Dillingen, Germany.He shot two people to death in a disco, then broke into an apartment and killed the tenants.1999 (-) Spree Killer Günther Ewen commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 36 in Luxemburg, Luxemburg.He was hunted down by German and French police after going on a 3-day shooting spree in which he killed 5.2002 (-) Murderer Ronford Lee Jr. Styron is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2007 (-) Murderer Charles Smith is executed by lethal injection in Texas, USA.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

One of the earliest concerts of Dez Mona, then still using live digitised video effects, in the livingroom of an Iranian poet in refuge in Borgerhout, Belgium.1859 (+) Physicist Pierre Curie is born in Paris, France.1905 (+) Actor Joseph Cheshire Cotten is born in Petersburg, Virginia, USA.1905 (+) Amateur filmmaker of the President Kennedy assassination Abraham Zapruder is born in Kovel, Ukraine.1909 (+) Actor James Neville Mason is born in Huddersfield, United Kingdom.1911 (+) Nazi doctor at Ravensbrück concentration camp Herta Oberheuser is born in Köln, Germany.1923 (+) Photographer Richard Avedon is born in New York City, New York, USA.1929 (x) 125 Die in Hospital fire in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.1929 (x) 123 Die in Cleveland Clinic fire in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.1930 (+) Artist Jasper Johns is born in Augusta, Georgia, USA.1935 (-) Suprematist artist Kazimir Severinovich Malevich dies at the age of 57 in Leningrad, Russia.1936 (-) Murderer Jack Sullivan is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1937 (+) Musician Trini Trinidad Lopez is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.1948 (+) Musician and pioneer of Ambient Music Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno is born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom.1956 (-) Artist and magician Austin Osman Spare dies at the age of 69 in London, United Kingdom.1967 (-) Artist Edward Hopper dies at the age of 84 in New York City, New York, USA.1972 (x) Judge Wolfgang Buddenberg’s car is bombed by the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion in Karlsruhe, Germany.The Manfred Grashof Commando claims responsability for the attack.1972 (x) Governor of Alabama and President-Candidate George Wallace is shot 5 times by would-be assassin Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland, USA.The assassination attempt left him paralyzed.1980 (-) Jean Reyner is strangled and her breasts removed by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, in New York, Hotel Seville, 22 East Twenty-ninth street, New York, USA.1981 (x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Clifford Robert Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, marries the mother of his son in Coquilham, British Columbia, Canada.1981 (x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Death-Threat" in Brussels, Les Ateliers, Brabant, Belgium.1981 (-) Ulrike Hellan is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 10 in Mainz, Germany.She survived, and Bopp was arrested later that day.1985 (x) 43-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap in room 224, a computer room, of Cory Hall in Berkeley, University, California, USA.One person is badly injured when opening the package.1985 (-) Murderer Jesse De La Rosa is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1986 (-) Rapist and murderer Jay Kelly Pinkerton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 24 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1993 (-) Erick Schmitt aka The Human Bomb, is shot dead by a special RAID-police-commando after hostaging a class of young children for 46 hours, having dynamite tied around his waist at the age of 42 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.1995 (-) Renee Blackwell is killed by Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist, at the age of 24 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.He tossed her body in a dumpster behind a McDonald's at 63rd and Ashland.2003 (-) Murderer Bruce Charles Jacobs is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, May 14, 2010

An impressive plate of sushi ready to be served at our house in Antwerpen, Belgium.1643 (x) 4-year-old King of France Louis XIV originally Louis-Dieudonné aka The Sun King, becomes King upon the death of his father, Louis XIII in Paris, France.1832 (+) Charles Frederick Peace aka The Murderous Musician, is born in Sheffield, United Kingdom.1856 (x) Start of the trial against 31-year-old Serial Killer Dr William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, in the Old Bailey, London, United Kingdom.1868 (+) Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld is born in Kolberg, Poland.1897 (+) Musician Sidney Bechet is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.1912 (-) Writer August Johann Strindberg dies of pneumonia at the age of 63 in Stockholm, Sweden.1930 (-) Maria Butlies is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1931 (+) Composer Alvin Lucier is born in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA.1935 (-) Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Nice, France.1936 (+) Musician Bobby Darin originally Walden Robert Cassotto, is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.He allegedly chose the name Darin because he had seen a malfunctioning electrical sign at a Chinese restaurant reading "DARIN DUCK" rather than "MANDARIN DUCK".1939 (x) 5-year-old The World’s Youngest Mother Lina Medina gives birth to a son in Lima, Peru.The boy was named Gerardo after her doctor. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a disease of the bone marrow.1940 (-) Feminist and Anarchist Writer Emma Goldman dies of a stroke at the age of 70 in Toronto, Canada.1944 (+) Filmmaker George Lucas is born in Modesto, California, USA.1952 (+) Musician David Byrne is born in Dumbarton, Scotland, United Kingdom.1959 (-) Musician Sidney Bechet dies of lung cancer at the age of 62 in Garches, France.1962 (+) Kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil aka The Collector, is born in Hainburg an der Donau, Austria.1965 (-) Irena St. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 16 in Grodziek, Poland.1968 (-) Mr Delisse is shot in the head by Nestor Pirotte in Genval, Belgium.Pirotte, sentenced to death 13 years earlier, was out on parole.1970 (x) 35-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof assists with Gudrun Ensslin in the escape of Andreas Baader from the Deutschen Zentralinstitut für Soziale Fragen while on leave from Tegel Prison in Berlin, Dahlem, Miquelstrasse 83, Germany.By following Baader in his jump through the window, Meinhof gave up her intellectual fight and went in the underground. This event marks the official foundation of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe aka Rote Armee Fraktion.1972 (-) National Hero Romas Kalanta aka The Young Man with the Mesmerizing Eyes, commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 19 in Kaunas, Lithuania.It was a protest against the occupation of Lithuania by the USSR.1973 (x) 7 members of the Alday family are raped, sodomised, beaten and shot dead by escaped prisoners Wayne Coleman, George Dungee and Carl and Billy Isaacs in Seminole County, Georgia, USA.1976 (-) Samuel Stapleton is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 14 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.1977 (x) Unknown Master’s ‘Heimkehr des Verlorenen Sohnes’ is attacked with acid by Hans-Dieter Muller in Lubeck, St. Agidien church, Germany.1983 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Randy Stephen Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is arrested for drunk driving, while the body of 25-year-old Terry Lee Gambrel was found garotted in the passenger seat in San Diego, Interstate 5, California, USA.1984 (-) SS-Colonel and inventor of the “Black Raven” mobile gas chambers Walter Rauff dies of lung cancer at the age of 77 in Santiago de Chile, Chile.1985 (-) William Doi is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 66 in Los Angeles, Monterey Park, California, USA.1986 (-) Aline Peres is stabbed to death by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, at the age of 49 in Brest, France.1987 (-) Actress Rita Hayworth originally Marguerita Carmen Cansino, dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 68 in New York, Manhattan, New York, USA.1988 (-) Aljoscha Woronko is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 9 in Artjomowsk, Russia.1991 (-) First Lady of the People’s Republic of China Jiang Qing originally Li Shuméng aka Madame Mao, commits suicide by hanging in her hospital bathroom at the age of 77 in China.1993 (-) Gangster and kidnapper Patrick Haemers commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 40 in Brussels, Vorst Prison, Brabant, Belgium.1997 (-) Joan Brock is beaten to death as sixth victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 55 in LaPlace, Texas, USA.1998 (-) Singer and actor Frank Francis Albert Sinatra aka Ol’ Blue Eyes aka The Voice, dies of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Los Angeles, California, USA.2003 (-) Actor Robert Langford Modini Stack dies of a heart attack at the age of 84 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Bunker architecture noticed during a walk on the banks of the Rhône in Lyon, France.1655 (+) 244th Pope Innocentus XIII originally Michelangelo de Conti, is born in Rome, Poli, Italy.1792 (+) 255th Pope Pius IX originally Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, is born in Senigallia, Italy.1882 (+) Artist Georges Braque is born in Argenteuil, France.1907 (+) Writer Daphne Du Maurier is born in London, United Kingdom.1931 (+) Founder of the People’s Temple Reverend Jim James Warren Jones is born in Lynn, Indiana, USA.1939 (+) Actor Harvey Keitel is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1941 (+) Musician Ritchie Valens originally Richard Steven Valenzuela known from La Bamba, is born in Pacoima, Los Angeles, California, USA.1947 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion member Irmgard Möller is born in Bielefeld, Germany.1950 (+) Musician Stevie Wonder originally Stevland Morris, is born in Saginaw, Michigan, USA.1957 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Andrea Martina Klump is born in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany.1961 (-) Actor Gary Cooper originally Frank Cooper, dies of lung cancer at the age of 60 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.1962 (-) Artist Franz Jozef Kline dies at the age of 52 in New York City, New York, USA.1963 (x) 36-year-old James Foster is arrested on suspicion of strangling 4 women in New York, New York, USA.1968 (+) Double murderer and rapist James Lee Clark is born in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA.1969 (x) Over 100 Die in race riot in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.1972 (x) 115 Die in Playtown Cabaret fire in Osaka, Japan.1972 (+) Triple murderer Marion Butler Dudley is born in Texas, USA.1979 (x) Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Installation - 2" in Breda, Turfschip, the Netherlands.1981 (x) 61-year-old 264th Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Jozef Wojtila, is shot by 24-year-old Mehmet Ali Agca in Rome, Italy.1985 (-) Founder of Black Liberation group MOVE John Africa originally Vincent Leaphart, dies in the resulting fire when the police drop a four-pound bomb on the roof of their headquarters during a shoot-out at the age of 53 in Philadelphia, 6221 Osage Avenue, Pennsylvania, USA.Five other adults and five children, also died in the fire.1990 (x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, rents room 213 at the Oxford Apartments on 25th North Street, where he will kill and dismember 13 people in less than 2 years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.1997 (-) Murderer Anthony Westley is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (-) Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Somers, Connecticut, USA.